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Hospital Christmas in General Hospital in England in 1944: We were sending as many patients home as possible so that they would be there for Christmas. They were elated when they knew that they were going home. But it was sad for those who had to stay behind. Those that were left behind refused to remain in the doldrums. A sympathetic English woman, helped by furnishing Christmas trees that she had had cut from her estate. The ambulatory patients trimmed these trees with silver stars cut from tin cans, sprigs of holly, and pictures from magazines. Each ward had its own tree. |